Designing Our Future Daniel M. French, Ed.D. Secretary of Education ~ . VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION
The System is Too Complex 1. Vermont’s education system� is overly� complex relative to its scale and number of students. 2. This complexity is interfering with our ability to ensure quality and equity across the system. 3. This complexity is the chief cause of our inefficiency. ~ . VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION
The System Needs to be Designed Representative Strategy Design Strategy All stakeholders in process to ensure Small design team, based on expertise buy-in and experience Useful when the solution is already in More useful in creating a new solution the repertoire of solutions End product is consistent with current End product is a new prototype which practice is then shared with stakeholders for feedback and refinement Success is a re-affirmation of common Success is the achievement of the values articulated design elements Typical approach used to create VTED New approach necessary to address policy adaptive challenges
Process to Date • Version 1.0 – brainstorming among cabinet policy team • Single district used as most extreme example of a simplified system • Version 2.0 – includes V 1.0 and additional content developed by AOE admin team members in response to the prompt: ~ . VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION
To what extent would a GSSD model create opportunities for . . ~ . VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION
Design Elements from Version 1.0 • The system should be flexible • The system should support the enough to meet the personal use of quality data. learning aspirations of each • The system should support a student. more efficient and responsive • The system should be better approach to curriculum and integrated with the social professional development. service delivery system. • The system should support the • The system should put an broader social and economic increased focus on early development of our state. learning and care. • The system should be more • The system should put a focus nimble, efficient, and effective. on teacher quality. ~ . VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION
Immediate Process Going Forward • New version will be published as WordPress blog posts, go live by 4/19 • Submissions being solicited from groups to embellish overall design, and to cover cradle-to-career vision • Continue to identify opportunities through simplification ~ . VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION
Open Questions • To what extent is “complexity and simplification” a useful and/or sufficient lens? • Are the identified opportunities compelling enough to make a case for the system needing to be designed? • If so, how to develop design elements that can address our adaptive challenges? ~ . VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION
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